Cultural safety in healthcare is not ‘ideological’ – it is saving lives

nazar_ab/Getty Images Introduced under urgency this month, the government’s latest proposed law change would increase the health minister’s powers to interfere in the work of medical registration authorities. The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Bill aims to “align health workforce regulation with patient needs […] and government priorities”. This follows Health Minister Simeon Brown’s recent decision to replace the leadership of the Medical Council because he objected to…